BLACK FOR GOOD
	Millennium's main man Lance Henriksen, aka Frank Black, looks to the future. By James E Brooks. WHEN Millennium made its debut 18 months ago, it was a bleak series about one man's battle against the dark forces which operate within society. It focused predominantly on the crimes of serial killers, and found Frank Black (Lance Henriksen) utilizing his special psychic gift to track down these deranged minds. In its second year the show has shifted emphasis to a more metaphysical and mystical angle. Frank finds himself moving into even less familiar territory, and, along with the audience, he is discovering the truth behind the Millennium Group, and the mysterious events we can expect as the 1990s come to a close. For Henriksen, this has created challenges more subtle than changing Frank's character. "It isn't so much that my character has changed," he says, "so much as that you are seeing more of him; more sides of him, rather than just dealing with an issue or a crime. You are seeing a human being. I'd like to see more of that human side come out because it can take the character so much farther. There are many sides to real people and I want to show those different sides in Frank." One aspect of the new season's story arc is the deterioration of the relationship between Frank and the Millennium Group as the Group's secrecy and nature become harder for him to deal with. "What I'm seeing - and I don't know for certain because TV is a producer's and writer's medium - is that the Group is looking more and more like a cult. Frank wants to find out what it's doing and where it's going and what it's done, but he certainly doesn't want to be a member of the Millennium Group." In the two-part episode Owls and Roosters, Frank's disaffection with the Group seems to have hit its greatest point, but Henriksen thinks this is just the beginning. "I think it's going to get worse," he offers. "In reality, what happens is that any group that is a secret society, if you don't want to be part of them, they are going to see you as a threat. Frank wants to know more about what it all means because very powerful things are coming at us in the year 2000. "Between you and me," he says, "I think that the Group may end up being the largest case Frank has ever worked on." Read the full interview with Lance Henriksen in issue 22 of Xposé.